Mitch Daniels' C-SPAN interview with Brian Lamb not all laughs

11:27 PM,
Sep. 27, 2012

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Eric Weddle
eweddle@jconline.com

During a fast-paced interview ushered by C-SPAN's founder Thursday, Gov. Mitch Daniels fielded another round of questions from the Purdue University community that he will lead starting in January.

A series of direct queries from Brian Lamb - the C-SPAN executive chairman, Lafayette native and Purdue alum - led to few quirky and foundational insights into Daniels and the realm of higher education: He earned a C in an art class in college, may reconsider using Twitter and believes college athletics are often marred by excess and hypocrisy.